metropolitan police officer michael fanone. michael fanone, i'm so glad you're here tonight.'m wondering what you have been thinking about all of this. what is going through your head tonight after this indictment came down? >> when i first learned about the indictment, i had a long conversation with a friend of mine, ryan reilly. and i told him how proud i felt to be an american at that moment, much in the way that i did when i learned that our military had killed osama bin laden. i just felt incredibly proud. incredibly proud -- >> i'm sorry, i don't want to cut you off, why that comparison in particular? >> i believe they're comparable. >> in what way? >> absolutely. osama bin laden was a terrorist who committed a horrific act against american people. and against our republic. and i believe that donald trump is a terrorist who committed horrific acts against the american people. >> you can imagine that is a very eyebrow raising statement to say the least, the notion of osama bin laden and the comparison to donald trump. it likely speaks to just how deeply you have been con

. >> all right, alayna treene, let's discuss more with michael fanone attacked by trump supporters on january 6th while he was defending the u.s. capitol along with a great many other police officers. mike, great to see you again. >> let's just start with what you're seeing from trump in this social media post. he said if you go after me we can put it up on screen, if you go after me i'm coming after you. that's what he put on his truth social media account last night. i mean, this is barely a day after he was arraigned in court and already inciting people with these kinds of messages. what did you think when you saw that? >> just more of the same. this is the same rhetoric that the former president use the in the weeks and months leading up to january 6th which those who are grounded in reality understand what took place that day, but it's also deeply personal for me because as someone who's been outspoken against the former president, someone who advocated relentlessly for an indictment, you know, a lot of that rhetoric inspires attacks against myself and members of my family. wheth

not a position i would want to be in. >> michael fanone, i know you as an officer as well.you strongly believe in. and i know that there is a lot of extraordinary feelings you have about the issue personally. but i know you stand true to the presumption of innocence and the presentation of evidence coming in the next set of this. we will see how the trial actually goes in the event. thank you so much, nice talking to you. >> yes ma'am, thank you for having me. >> erin? >> laura, coming. lead counsel and then president trump's first impeachment, daniel goldman will be with us next. ♪ ♪ we're reinventing our network... ...with smarter, more efficient routes... ...so you can deliver more value to youcustomers. fast. reliable. perfectly orchestrated. the united states postal service. hi, i'm ben, and i've lost 60 pounds on golo. i currently suffer from nerve damage which kept me bedridden for six months. i was very overweight and depressed. i was skeptical when i first ordered golo, but the condition i was in, i was willing to take the chance, and the chance turned out to be my

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officer who was severely injured that day, officer michael fanone, former officer now, he suffered a heart attack. he had a traumatic brain injury. he's been one of the more outspoken ones. he has taken time for himself right now. when i asked what were you doing, how did you learn of this indictment? he said i was actually on a ride at disneyland, i'm there with my family, on the pirates of the caribbean ride, so he plans to spend time with them and soak this up. what he said was, learning of this indictment was like taking a load off, that there was something cathartic with just knowing it had come to this point in the search for accountability and to make true that old adage that no one is above the law. >> there are literally millions of people who have felt traumatized in one way or another. of course, the people who were there. we all know people who were there. there were staffers who i talked to, young staffers who went there with very idealized hopes for what it could mean to work in that building. anybody who has walked in the building can feel the history, can feel the pow

michael fanone uses this line often.and back only for people who tell me that hell does not exist. so, all these different defenses that people are going to use and different defenses that people are going to use to -- its kind of lace like a gaslighting us, that what we went through did not even happen. >> jennifer, i would add to that gaslighting, the fact that you have this push for accountability for january 6th among law enforcement, among capitol officers. you have people in the fbi. and then you have the republican party denying that this all happened, and continuing, wanting to continue to sell themselves as the party of law and order. it could not be more transparent that that is in name and not in the league. >> that's right. from their threats to the fbi, which some people have acted upon in actual attempts to harm fbi agents, to their assaults on -- verbal assaults -- on the judges in the various cases, the threats now made against the grand jurors in georgia -- they have shown utter disregard for law and ord

who were there that day who testified before the january 6th house committee, including officer michael fanonew a former d.c. metro police officer. he suffered severe injuries on that day, concussion and also a heart attack. it has impacted his life forever. i'm sure it's impacted your life forever. he said experience, his experience with learning of this indictment was like taking a load off, that to him, it re-enforced the old adage, no one is above the law, and provided some proof that the system isn't totally broken. how did it feel to you to learn of this indictment? >> well, it's one more measure of justice. first of all, thank you, jose and ana, for having me on. always good to see my friend jason. we were together in the gallery and left behind on that terrible day. i'll be always grateful to jason for the help he provided me during and after that moment. look, this was traumatic for the country. it was traumatic for many of us individually. so justice comes in many different forms. holding all of those people who were involved in january 6th responsible literally seeing hundreds of pe

officers who assisted capitol police officers, officer michael fanone saying donald trump spent his entireetime f'ing around and he's about to find out. i'd like to think in some small way i played a part in all of this. we also heard last hour from officer daniel hodges, an officer for mpd. he talked to our colleague andrea mitchell and explained what it would be like to have to attend the trial of the former president when it comes to this indictment. mind you, hodges was crushed between a stolen police shield and the frame of one of the doors in the capitol building. he testified against the rioter who did just that. watch this. >> it never really goes away. there hasn't really been a day that's gone by where i haven't thought about it. partially because i pay attention to the news and how it's continuing to impact the current events, and partially just how burned in my memory it is. so the trial is definitely going to bring some of that up for people, but it's necessary. >> reporter: so it's necessary, and that's the comment i've been getting from officers i've been talking to, includi

so disrespectful to their effort, to the officers that responded that day, to harry dunn, to michael fanone. do all the others who have been bremen off to speak out,? there have been so many lives that have been shattered and impacted, and careers impacted because of what this guy has done and the enablers that continue to give him cover. it's about time that they pay a price for this and if it's not georgia, then it's going to be jack smith or maybe it's going to be everybody. but if anything, it's got to be at the ballot box because donald trump is going to be the nominee. i've got news for folks. none of this is going to matter to the republicans and that is pretty shameful, a sad state of affairs for that party. >> hayes, you know, one of the interesting things about the georgia case is that there was this journalist who happened to stumble upon the december 2020 fake electors meeting in georgia, who will provide testimony, i believe sometime this week. he's the first witness whose name has actually surfaced in this case. it's clear that even as willis is about to bring charges, that sh

michael fanone uses the line often i went to hell and back only for people to tell me that hell doesn'ting to use and people are going to be throwing at the wall to get them to stick, we're just going to have to live with that. it's kind of like gaslighting us that what we went through didn't really happen. >> i don't like that we have to accept that. and i try to never do that here. i mean -- >> i don't. we don't. >> right. we decent have to accept that. and that's playing on their terrain. i mean, i feel -- i think the way you do -- that the criminal justice system kind of springing to life and engaging is an affirmation for reality on earth one. it's an affirmation that the physical violence and the ongoing trauma that you experienced are real, which nobody on earth one doubts, but you are contending with this alternate reality. i feel like every time there is any attempt to defend what trump did on that day or to call them ordinary tourists it is a front to all of you. >> well, yeah, that's -- you have to think that's the game plan of what he did, what his supporters are doing. they